Project name: PERSEUS (Policy-oriented marine Environmental Research for the Southern European Seas)

Grant Agreement Number: 287600

Implementation period: 2012-2015

Objectives and tasks: a research project aimed to assesses the dual impact of human activity and natural pressures on the Mediterranean and Black Seas. PERSEUS merges natural and socio-economic sciences to predict the long-term effects of these pressures on marine ecosystems. The project aims to design an effective and innovative research governance framework, which will provide the basis for policymakers to turn back the tide on marine life degradation

Organization - Coordinator: HELLENIC CENTRE FOR MARINE RESEARCH, 46,7 Km avenue

Athens-Sounio, (Mavro Lithari), ANAVISSOS ATTIKI, 19013, Greece

PERSEUS Coordinator: Vangelis Papathanassiou,
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Partners (Consortium members):

France (6 organizations):

INSTITUT FRANCAIS DE RECHIERCHIE POUR L'EXPLOITATION DE LA MER, MOULINEAUX; PLAN BLEU POUR L'ENVIRONNEMENT ET LE DEVELOPPEMENT EN MEDITERRANNEE, VALBONNE; CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE, PARIS; UNIVERSITE DE LA MEDITERRANEE D'AIX-MARSEILLE II, MARSEILLE; UNIVERSITE PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE – PARIS; UNIVERSITE PAUL SABATIER TOULOUSE III, TOULOUSE

Italy (8 organizations):

CONSORZIO NAZIONALE INTERUNIVERSITARIO PER LE SCIENZE DEL MARE, ROMA; COSNAV ENGINEERING SRL, TRIESTE; CENTRO EURO-MEDITERRANEO PER I CAMBIAMENTI CLIMATICI SCARL, LECCE; CONSCIGLIO NAZIONAIE DELLE RICERCHE, ROMA; AGENZIA NAZIONALE PER LE NUOIT TECNOLOGIE, L'ENDRGIA E LO SALUPPO ECONOMICO SOSTENIBILE, ROMA; ISTITUTO NAZTONAIE DI OCEANOCRAFIA E DI GEOFISICA SPERIMENTALE - OGS, TRIESTE; STAZIONE ZOOLOGICA ANTON DOHRN, NAPOLI; CLU srl, Castelfranco Emilia

Romania (2 organizations):

INSTITUTUL NATIONAI DE CERCETARE-DEZVOLTARE PENTRU GEOLOGIE SI GEOECOLOGIE MARINA-GEOECOMAR, BUCHUREST; INSTITUTUL NATIONAL DE CERCETARE-DEZVOLTARE MARINA GRIGORE ANTIPA, CONSTANTA

Spain (5 organizations):

BC3 BASQUE CENTRE FOR CLIMATE CHANGE - KLIMA AIDAKETA IKERGAI, BILBAO; INSTITUTO ESPANOL DE OCEANOGRAFIA, MADRID; UNIVERSITAT DE BARCELONA; UNIVERSITAT POLITECNICA DE CATALUNYA, BARCELONA; AGENCIA ESTATAL CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS, MADRID

Belgium (2 organizations):

JRC -JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE- EUROPEAN COMMISSION, BRUSSELS; UNIVERSITE DE LIEGE, LIEGE

United Kingdom (2 organizations):

PLYMOUTHMARINE LABORATORY; UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH

Netherlands (2 organizations):

STCHTING DELTARES, DELFT; UNIVERSITEIT UTRECHT

Greece (4 organizations):

University of the Aegean-Research Unit, MYTILINI, LESVOS; NATIONAL AND KAPODISTRIAN UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS; PANEPISTRIMO KRITIS (UNIVERSITY OF CRETE), CRETE; EIR SYMVOULOI ANAPTYXOS ETAIREIA PERIORISMENIS EFTITHYNIS, ATHINA

Cyprus (2 organizations):

THE CRUPUS RESEARCH AND EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION, NICOSIA; UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS, NICOSIA

Israel (2 organizations):

ISRAELOCEANOGRAPHIC AND LIMNOLOGICAL RESEARCH LIMITED, HAIFA; UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA

Bulgaria (4 organizations):

BLACK SEA NGO NETWORK, VARNA; SOFIISKI UNIVERSITET SVETI KLIMENT OHRIDSKI, SOFIA; INSTITUT PO BIORAZNOOBRAZIE I EKOSISTEMNI IZSLEDVANIYA BALGARSKA AKADEMIYA NA NAUKITE, SOFIA; INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY - BULGARIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, VARNA

Turkey (2 organizations):

MIDDLEEAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY, ANKARA; ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY

Ukraine (3 organizations):

A.O. KOVALEVSKIY INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGY OF SOUTHERN SEAS, SEVASTOPOL; MARINE HYDROPHYSICAL INSTITUTE - UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, SEVASTOPOL; ODESSA NATIONAL I.I. MECHNIKOV UNIVERSITY, ODESSA

As well as organizations from the following countries:

Malta: UNVERSITA TA MALTA, MSIDA

Slovenia: NACIONALNI INSTITUT ZA BIOLOGIJO, LJUBLJANA

Croatia: Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries, Split

Russian Federation: P.P. SHIRSHOV INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY OF RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, MOSCOW

Georgia: IVANE JAVAKHISHVILI TBILISI STATE UNIVERSITY

Egypt: National Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries, Cairo

Morocco: INSTITUT NATIONAI, DE RECHERCIIE HALIEUTIQUE, CASABLANCA

Germany: ECOLOGIC INSTITUT gemeinnutzige GmbH, BERLIN

Tunisia: SAROST SA, Tunis

Project website: http://www.perseus-net.eu/site/content.php

Head of the ONU Research Group and His Contacts: Dr. Volodymyr I. Medinerts

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